Anita Earls

Samstag, 20. Februar 1960

Anita Earls (born February 20, 1960) is an African-American civil rights attorney, educator and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. She previously served as the Executive Director of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, as well as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice during the Clinton administration. On November 6, 2018, Earls defeated Republican incumbent Justice Barbara Jackson to win a seat on the state's highest court. Earls is one of the women whose name has been suggested as a potential United States Supreme Court nominee for current President of the United States Joe Biden, and has cited "grassroots" encouragement to run for the U.S. Senate in 2022.